Word: classe
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...wish to urge upon the members of the Senior Class the importance of immediately writing their "lives" for the Class-Book. If it is not done now, it will probably never be done at all; and the value of the book will be very much diminished if it does not contain the lives of all the members of the class. The Secretary, this year, does not ask for an elaborate autobiography, with one's descent traced back to Adam, but only for a brief statement of the way in which and the place where the student's life has been...
...distinguished from the broad question of opening city libraries on that day. The working-man may, and doubtless does, find in the change from the noisy workshop to the quiet library and from manual to mental labor a real rest. Again, a city library reaches a class of the community which the church has not reached, - a class which needs just such help as a library can give...
...reasonably expect. There are other points, however, that may be overlooked by those who have not profited by bitter experience. The windows, for instance, in the University recitation-rooms are, in nine cases out of ten, so arranged as to throw the sunlight right into the faces of the class, and to envelop the instructor in a deep shadow, whence, like the Homeric gods, he can see without being seen. Unpleasant as it is to be unable to distinguish the instructor's expression or to see what he is looking at, it is still more unpleasant to have the light...
These puzzling cross lights and dazzling sunbeams may be seen to advantage in U. 2. There on a bright morning the different portions of a class are divided from each other and from the instructor by bands of sunlight and zones of darkness. Moreover, through the windows right before us we have a full view of Thayer or Weld, as the case may be, so curiously and fantastically distorted by the peculiar quality of glass used at Harvard as irresistibly to distract the attention of our imaginative and speculative mind. As the preservation of our eyesight ought...
...larger attendance and which exerts a greater influence than any other elective, requires a much better room than can be at present given to it. To take notes and sit with any ease in Upper Holden is wellnigh impossible; while the difficulty of showing engravings and illustrations to the class is very great. This leads to another idea. There is no reason why the recitation-rooms should not be made attractive. If rope-matting be out of the question, why should not appropriate pictures and maps, at least, be hung upon the walls? Diagrams, plans, and models in the scientific...